Anticreeping railway device.



H.. 'I'. HUGHES'.

v ANTIGRBEPING RAILWAY, DEVICE. LPPLIOATION FILED AUG. so, 1912. RENEW@ DBO. 5, 191s.

- Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

TED STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH a. Huertas, or YouNo'sTowN, oHIo. nazionalismo RAILWAY nevica.

Llllligi. Specification of Letters Patent. Pai-,Qnjed Sept, 22, 1914. Application :tiled August C, 1912. Serial No. 717,985. Renewed December 5, 191-3. PSerial No. 804,943.'

To all whom t ma?! concer/n.- C of the railway rail in the event of thelat- Be it known that I, HUGH T. HUGHES, a ter having an)T tendency to move longitudicitizen of the United States, residing atnally in one direct-ion or the other. The up- Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and per cdgcof said cam F is convexed and is State of Ohio, have invented certain new adapted to contact with the bottom of; the 60 and useful Improvements in Anticreeping wall of the slot formed in the flange E and Railway Devices; and l-do hereby-declare in which position the two series of teeth the following to be a full, clear, and exact formed upon the cam member will rest description of the invention, such as will against the flange of the rail. Projectin luenable othersskilled in the art to which it from the bottom of the plate are ribs I 65 appertains to make. and use the saine, referwhich are adapted to bite into the tie and ence being had to the accompanying drawprevent the plate fr0-1n moving Afrom its ings, and to the letters and figures of referplace. A ence marked thereon, which form a part of In adjusting in place my improved device this specification. for preventing the rails from creeping, the 70 This invention relates to new and useful cam member F is inserted with its upper improvements in devices for preventing end in the slot of the flange E before the railway rails from creeping and comprises plate is moved to the posit-ion shown in Fig.

. a simple and eliicient device of this nature 2 of the drawings and, when the parts are p having various detalls of'construction and adjusted 21S Shown, the @am member will 75 combinations and arrangements of parts snugly Contact at its upper and lower edges which will be hereinafter fully described, with the wall of the slot and the upper surshown in the accompanying drawings and face of' the flange of the rail respectively.

then specifically defined in the appended The plate being securely held from moving, Claims. any tendency of the rail to move will cause 80 The invention consists further in theprothe cam to rdck and tightly check move- -vision of an anti-creeping device for lreepment of the rail. ing the railway joints in'alinement and uni- What I claim to be new is fornily spaced, thereby preventing,r liability l. A deviceV for preventing railway rails to accidents incident to rails not holding from creeping comprising a plate upon 85 propel. linement the device Serving to take which the flange of a railway rail isfadaptthe place of the ordinary tie plates and ased to rest, said plate having an upright porsure the lengthening of the lite of the ties by tion with an undercut. slot formedin the latthe preventing of the rail base from sinlreral projection thereof, and a cam member ing down into the tie as the train rolls over adapted to engage said .slot and the upper 90 the railway rails. surface ot' the flange of a railway rail, as set f My invention is illustrated 1n the accornforth.

panying drawings, in which 2. A device for preventmg railway rails Figure l is a cross sectional view through from creeping comprising a plate upon 40 my device shown applied to a railway which the flange of a railway ra'ilis'adapt- 95 rail. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the invened to rest., said"plate having an upright portion, and Fig. 3 is a top plan view. tion with an undercut slot formed in the lat- Reference now being had to the details of eral projection thereof, a cam having'itsthe drawings by letter, A. designates a plate upper edge convexed and engaging asimiprovided with spike holes B lformed at anylarly shaped wall l,of the slot and its lower 100 suitable locatie-ns and through which spikes edgeserrated and adapted to engage the upinay be driven to engage the flanges C of a per surface of the flange of a rail, as set rail D resting upon the plate. Upon one forth. r edge of said plate is a flange E which has an 3. A device for preventing railway rails arched-slot E formed by a laterally and from creeping com .risin a late u on 105 P g p P downwardly projecting portion thereof, as which the flange of a railwaylrail is *adapte shown clearly in the drawings, and F desigcd to rest, said plate having an upright pornates a loosely mounted cam having two tion with an undercut slot formed in the lat- .convexed toothed edges H which are adapteral projection thereof, a cam', having its ed to bite into the upper surface ofthe flange upper edge convexed and engaging a simi- 110 I lady shaped, .ml of fha slot and having its lower edge provef with two convexed portorgs, @ach hming a series of Serratons;

eje thereof and adapted to en d me A surface of the ange of a railway mi?, as set forth.

In testlglony whereof hereunto @fix my slgnature 1n the pres/ence of two W 1tnesses.

HUGH T. HUGHES. 12ffii-messes:

L.' L. GEORGE, ISAAC HARTZELL. 

